Chauvin Dwight Bailey, 31, and Sandy Marie Ball, 28, both of Roanoke, are charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute

$30,000 worth of heroin from a vehicle en route to Roanoke from New York City, the Botetourt County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.A sheriff's deputy stopped the vehicle for speeding on Interstate 81 south near mile marker 160, the sheriff said in the release.A state police drug dog was called in and found the heroin stuffed in a spare tire.Chauvin Dwight Bailey, 31, and Sandy Marie Ball, 28, both of Roanoke, are charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute and transporting heroin into Virginia with intent to distribute. They are also charged with child endangerment because a 10-year-old was in the car, the news release said.
Sheriff's Office Maj. Delbert Dudding did not know what happened to the child in the vehicle, but said that the sheriff's office usually tries to get in touch with family. If family cannot be reached, or cannot take the child, social services is called.Bailey was arrested in Roanoke last month on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, according to court records. He was out of jail on bond when he was arrested Sunday.At the pair's arraignment Monday, Ball said that she is four months pregnant and takes about 30 hits of heroin a day, Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom said.Bailey and Ball are being held at the Botetourt County Jail without bond

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Daniel Bailey has been told to pay up £194,370 by a court. If he fails to hand over the money within six months, he will face a three-year jail term.

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